This post is presented by our media partner The New Agora
View the original article here.
10 Signs You May Be a Meta Male
By Gary. Z. McGee
“Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.” ~Werner Heisenberg
The concept of “Meta male” isn’t a term with a widely accepted or standardized definition in social or psychological literature, but if we were to extrapolate from the terms “Alpha” and “Beta” and apply the prefix “Meta-” (which often implies something beyond, over, or transcending), we could infer some characteristics. Here’s a speculative take on what a Meta male might embody, contrasting with the more traditional Alpha and Beta male archetypes.
1.) Transcendence:
“Elevate yourself above the battlefield.” ~Robert Greene
As a meta male you move beyond traditional power dynamics. You’re not focused on being at the top or in support roles but on being where you can most effectively contribute or innovate. Which is above the battlefield playing the Infinite Game of life despite the petty finite games of Alphas and Betas.
Understanding that everything is connected to everything else, you cultivate ruthless nonattachment. Perched up high, seeing with “Over Eyes,” counterbalancing with Middle Way Dynamics, you personify wholeness through otherworldliness.
2.) Adaptability:
“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.” ~Bruce Lee
You are highly adaptable to various social, professional, or personal environments without losing identity or purpose. You are a Nietzschean self-overcomer par excellence. Flexible and open, you are adept at adapting to the vicissitudes of change.
Understanding that a mind set in its ways cannot respond effectively to new challenges or information, you encourage openness to new ideas, flexibility in thought and action, and a readiness to unlearn or alter your approach when necessary. It’s a call to avoid dogmatism and embrace a more fluid, responsive way of living and thinking.
3.) Integrative:
“Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.” ~Jung
You balance traits typically associated with Alpha and Beta males. You can lead when necessary but also support and collaborate equally well.
You understand the vital importance of shadow work. Where most Betas would avoid the shadow and most Alphas would fight against it, you integrate it. You initiate the monster. You baptize the beast. You assimilate the demon. You honor your inner darkness by shining its uncomfortable blacklight into the blinding light of the all-too-comfortable world.
4.) Self-awareness:
“I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.” ~Elias Canetti
You have a deep understanding of yourself, including strengths, weaknesses, desires, and fears, which allows for personal growth beyond societal expectations. You are hyperaware that the Self is masks all the way down perceiving delusions all the way up. Such higher awareness gives you the ability to question yourself to the nth degree.
This leads to the ability to overcome yourself. Self-overcoming becomes a chisel for the hardened beliefs within you. You use it to humble yourself, to destroy your delusions, to unsettle your settled mind, to shock your chakras, and to recondition your cultural conditioning.
5.) Emotional maturity:
“The emotionally intelligent person knows that love is a skill, not a feeling, and will require trust, vulnerability, generosity, humor, sexual understanding, and selective resignation.” ~Alain de Botton
You manage emotions effectively by not suppressing them like an Alpha or being overly influenced by them like a Beta. Instead, you transform them into high art through emotional alchemy.
You transform the emotion of fear into courageous action for example. This can be applied to almost any emotion. You Feel grief but act with steadfastness. You feel envy but act with emulation. You feel triggered but act with curiosity. You feel vengeful but act with forgiveness.
6.) Innovative:
“Great men are like eagles and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer
You look for new ways to solve problems. Often outside of traditional paths.
You are a pathfinder. You have the courage to do the taboo thing, the audacious thing, the insouciant thing, the eccentric thing, the unpopular thing, realizing that without your unique spark, no outside the box thought, no otherworldly imagination, no arguments with God, no crucifixion of the past could be possible.
You wield Innovation like a question mark sword, realizing that asking difficult questions will always be more important than receiving simple answers.
7.) Big-picture leadership:
“As anywhere else in the world, the unwritten law defeated the written one.” ~Herman Hesse
Your leadership style is transcendent. It’s elevated. You see the big picture. You see how the unwritten law will always overrule the written law, and you lead by this example.
You realize that true leaders do not go where the path may lead; they go where there is no path and leave a trail. The unique function of your style of leadership is the elevation of perspective and the cultivation of the third eye. Being confident in this regard, you stand out from the crowd and fulfill your role as visionary.
You become an icon of iconoclasm, a force of nature that leads by example whether or not anybody else decides to “follow.”
8.) Resilience:
“Let me fall if I must fall. The one I am becoming will catch me.” ~Baal Shem Tov
You don’t just endure challenges, you grow from them, learning and adapting along the way. You transform demons into diamonds, wounds into wisdom, and setbacks into steppingstones.
You are antifragile. You understand that pressure is needed to forge the diamond. Not comfort, not security, not safety, but pressure. So it goes also for the rough diamond of the soul. Pressure is needed to smooth out the edges; to make it more resilient, more robust, more antifragile.
9.) Relational:
“The only way of loving a person is to love them without hope.” ~Walter Benjamin
You value deep, meaningful connections over shallow, transactional relationships, understanding that genuine connection is a two-way street and love is never a product to be owned but an energy to be shared.
You love without expectation, without hope, without an agenda. You allow others to love the way they must love. You let go of your ego’s attachment to love. You practice agape-love, cosmic, transcendent, and nonattached. You love at the edge of the human condition: fallible, uncertain, hungry, and in a frenzy.
10.) Holistic success:
“Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me.” ~Nietzsche
Your success isn’t just financial or hierarchical but includes mental health, personal fulfillment, spirituality, and contributions to society or community through high art.
Beyond codependence and independence, there is the holistic state of interdependence. This is where you reside. Your next-door neighbor is the mighty Phoenix. Together, you practice the art of the life-death-rebirth process.
Through your absolute nonattachment, you see how everything is attached to everything else. The entire story of the human leitmotif unfolds below you, glimmering with the promise of hidden gems, diamonds in the rough, gold in the mud—all just waiting to be plucked by someone nonattached enough to seize it, utilize it, and transform it into a magic elixir for the “tribe.”
Image source: The Walker on a Sea of Stars by Julian Majin
About the Author:
Gary Z McGee, a former Navy Intelligence Specialist turned philosopher, is the author of Birthday Suit of God and The Looking Glass Man. His works are inspired by the great philosophers of the ages and his wide-awake view of the modern world.
This article (10 Signs You May Be a Meta Male) was originally created and published by Self-inflicted Philosophy and is printed here under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Gary Z McGee and self-inflictedphilosophy.com. It may be re-posted freely with proper attribution, author bio, and this statement of copyright.
This post was originally published on from Randy Rowe and can viewed here: https://newagora.ca/10-signs-you-may-be-a-meta-male/
This post was originally published by our media partner here.